A New World: Preparing for the Olympics in Rio!

This is our last summer country-learning extravaganza week! After this blog post, I will be delving deep into planning for the school year, getting my classroom decorated and organized, and attending my ever-so-exciting inservice workshops, so don't expect to hear again from me any time soon.

We decided to end our summer learning with a bang by focusing on the thing the whole world seems to be focused on right now: the Olympics! I invited my sons to choose to either study about Brazil, or the Olympics, or a combination of the two. Both of them decided to do a combination to get a good feeling for the country the Olympics will be taking place in, along with the many events taking place.

This is what Ethan wrote about the Olympics this week:

Olympics

By:Ethan

Men’s Basketball

U.S.A’s basketball team commonly known as the “Dream Team” is very good in the olympic games and is hopefully ready for some gold medals.They have LeBron,Steph Curry,Kevin Durant, and Draymond Green.

Rio De Janeiro

Has a beautiful city and one of their main attractions is the Copacabana beach.It is possibly the world’s most beautiful beach and is very crowded every year

Olympic Sports

There is 39 sports in the olympics this year and it will be intense the most popular sports are basketball,Wrestling,Weightlifting,synchronised swimming,Swimming,table tennis,tennis, beach volleyball,triathlon,gymnastics,hockey,soccer,and fencing.These are only some though.

His writing is improving, but he still has a ways to go. I asked Ethan why he chose to include the last names of all of the basketball players except for LeBron, and he told me that everyone knows LeBron, so he did not need to include his last name. :)

I kind of failed on the culinary part of our journey since I was a little crunched for time this week, so I didn't really prepare any Brazilian-type meals. I thought about going out to a Brazilian steakhouse, though, which is a delicious treat that everyone needs to do at least once a year. I have been to a few, and I am never disappointed since I am a pretty ravenous carnivore when it comes to scrumptious meats.

To wrap up our journey for the summer, here are a few of the slides that the boys created while doing their Google slide presentations over the summer:

This is one of Alex's slides from his England presentation. He enjoyed learning about all of the different dogs that came from England.

Here is one of Ethan's slides about Rome. He enjoyed learning about Julius Caesar, and he wanted to know more about Italy's pizza, of course!

I hope you all enjoyed taking this virtual journey around the world with us this summer! I am going to try to post some more blogs throughout the school year, related to everyday things you can do with your children/students/young people in your life. I have lots of little tips and tricks that make learning fun rather than just a boring chore that kids feel they have to do. I am super excited to get this school year started, and I hope you will stick by me throughout my journey this year. I have a new writing program I will be implementing this year and some new ideas about making math and science fun as well. I will probably only post about once a month since I tend to get fairly busy with school, but I look forward to you all coming back to check out my blog!

I also welcome any ideas, questions, or suggestions you may have for the blog. I have a few ideas already spinning around my head for next summer and for school breaks as well. Hope you all have a wonderful rest of the summer, and I will most likely post again in September!